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viable alternative but many joined because it offered a secure (especially in time of peace) and
manly vocation. As in the American Revolution, the Irish in British service found themselves facing
their countrymen, both those of republican views and those who were simply opposed to the British.
Neither group regarded this situation as unusual or remarkable.
Although the participation of Irish volunteers in the Boers’ fight against the British makes
interesting reading, this was a very minor factor in the war. During three years of war, probably
fewer than 500 men were involved, many of whom did not live in Ireland, in Boer forces that
numbered some 80,000 men.
In the British army, the Irish (5th) Brigade under Major-general Arthur Fitzroy Hart, which
served under Sir Redvers Buller in Natal, consisted of four distinguished regiments with proud
histories. These, the 1st Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, the 2nd Royal Irish Rifles, the 1st Connaught
Rangers and the 1st Royal Dublin Fusiliers, had been part of the Army Corps sent to South Africa in
October and November 1899. At the Battle of Colenso on 15 December 1899 the Irish Brigade
suffered severe losses in the Loop, and the slopes of the hills alongside the Tugela River below
Hart’s Hill are marked with the graves of, and memorials to, the Irishmen who fell in the final drive to
relieve Ladysmith in February 1900. Queen Victoria was so moved by their courage that the “wearing
of the green” was officially instituted for Irish regiments of the British army on St Patrick’s Day and a
new regiment was founded in their honour. On 5 April 1900 an Army Order was issued: “Her
Majesty the Queen, having deemed it desirable to com-
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